I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.